﻿﻿The Global Cleantech Cluster Association (GCCA), the P80 Group Foundation (P80), and the Global Technology Deployment Initiative (GTDI) are convening a Global Solutions Summit (GSS) around the theme of “Daunting Challenges and Dazzling Opportunities: Scaleable Technology Deployment for Sustainable Development.” The Summit will convene on December 13-14, 2016 at the William J. Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. www.clubmadrid.org/GSS 2016will meet in collaboration with the Club de Madrid (CdM), an organization comprised of more than 100 former Presidents, Prime Ministers and Heads of State which will be reconvening in the Club de Madrid - P80 Group “Reunion Proceedings, ” the 6th GCCA Awards Dinner representing more than 10,000 cleantech companies in more than 50 clusters around the world and a Fulbright Scholar Alumni Diplomats Reunion Meeting. The 2016 Summit builds on the widely-acclaimed inaugural Global Solutions Summit which met at the US State Department in April 2014. See here for a brief summary of the guiding philosophy behind the Inaugural GSS. Additional Summits are tentatively planned for London in 2017 and Santiago, Chile in 2018.